I don't know if you read all the rules, but each one of the below questions must be less than 100 words. We must come up with something original in order to be picked for the second round. But if we win the first round, we will receive a computer and camera for the school.
1. How would you utilize this project to raise student interest in science, math or the environment?
-Allow collaboration amongst team members in the class and in other classes---in the school, or state, or between our students and students in other countries. This includes inviting in experts in the field. i.e. Forming teams of students posing as genetics counselors and reviewing/solving cases of patients with different genetic diseases along with input from experts in the field.
--Technology allows us to better engage students. To raise interest in science and math, education must make the shift from the former methods of look, see, learn, to the new model of see, imagine, collaborate, create. It is with 21st century technologies that students will be able to not only find a local community problem, but also collaborate with the necessary professionals, design, and create/build a solution. Along the way, students are learning how to be productive contributors to a new global workforce that demands high levels of collaboration, knowledge to product skills, and independence.--Robi
2. How would you engage your students to enthusiastically participate in this project?
Classroom projects that would involve the use of technology and expressing the future of education
Student driven ideas put into movies.
Podcasts and interactive lessons that they can watch or re-watch from home.
Interactive lessons, using ipad or ipods to actively engage the students in the class. Ex, using a sketch tool to draw and investigate the angles, arcs, measurements or other info to answer a question.
Using ipods or ipads to have students interact with the class, answer questions and polls from the teacher as class is going on.
-Creating lessons that use on-screen "manipulatives" so that students can interact with content involving processes and structures that are abstract in nature. i.e.--photosynthesis, cellular respiration, and chemical models--Making the invisible visible and tangible.
--Creation of relevant products that are tangible. (Use of technology to build an energy farm, or house that powers itself.) Anything that has the students being a majority of the unit rather than having lessons done via teacher or keeping the same old didactic model of education.I just think that these guys want to give money to us so that they can see us build something out of knowledge and education. To win this grant it won't be enough to have nice pictures of students using an iPad. They are going to want to give money to people that can make a cover of some magazine, journal, something. So let's give it to them by being able to build a product with the use of technologies.--Robi
3. How could winning a technology package in this Contest help your school?
Aging technology needs replacement
Collaboration between the science and math
Allowing students to use ipods, ipads in class can have every student interacting with the class.
Immersing students in the 21st century classroom--increasing student engagement and collaboration, incorporating student-created authentic products, and providing opportunities for all students to apply higher order thinking skills to new and unique situations presented to them--within and between disciplines. All of this requires continued maintenance of all technological tools that we have access to at this time, in addition to the use of new technological tools to further extend the 21st Century experiences we can offer our students.
--The technology package would allow students to prepare for a highly competitive global workforce by giving students the opportunity to work with technologies and collaboration methods that we currently can not. It will allow them to build the necessary and abstract thinking skills needed to succeed in a highly competitive technology driven economy. --Robi
1. How would you utilize this project to raise student interest in science, math or the environment?
-Allow collaboration amongst team members in the class and in other classes---in the school, or state, or between our students and students in other countries. This includes inviting in experts in the field. i.e. Forming teams of students posing as genetics counselors and reviewing/solving cases of patients with different genetic diseases along with input from experts in the field.
--Technology allows us to better engage students. To raise interest in science and math, education must make the shift from the former methods of look, see, learn, to the new model of see, imagine, collaborate, create. It is with 21st century technologies that students will be able to not only find a local community problem, but also collaborate with the necessary professionals, design, and create/build a solution. Along the way, students are learning how to be productive contributors to a new global workforce that demands high levels of collaboration, knowledge to product skills, and independence.--Robi
2. How would you engage your students to enthusiastically participate in this project?
Classroom projects that would involve the use of technology and expressing the future of education
Student driven ideas put into movies.
Podcasts and interactive lessons that they can watch or re-watch from home.
Interactive lessons, using ipad or ipods to actively engage the students in the class. Ex, using a sketch tool to draw and investigate the angles, arcs, measurements or other info to answer a question.
Using ipods or ipads to have students interact with the class, answer questions and polls from the teacher as class is going on.
-Creating lessons that use on-screen "manipulatives" so that students can interact with content involving processes and structures that are abstract in nature. i.e.--photosynthesis, cellular respiration, and chemical models--Making the invisible visible and tangible.
--Creation of relevant products that are tangible. (Use of technology to build an energy farm, or house that powers itself.) Anything that has the students being a majority of the unit rather than having lessons done via teacher or keeping the same old didactic model of education.I just think that these guys want to give money to us so that they can see us build something out of knowledge and education. To win this grant it won't be enough to have nice pictures of students using an iPad. They are going to want to give money to people that can make a cover of some magazine, journal, something. So let's give it to them by being able to build a product with the use of technologies.--Robi
3. How could winning a technology package in this Contest help your school?
Aging technology needs replacement
Collaboration between the science and math
Allowing students to use ipods, ipads in class can have every student interacting with the class.
Immersing students in the 21st century classroom--increasing student engagement and collaboration, incorporating student-created authentic products, and providing opportunities for all students to apply higher order thinking skills to new and unique situations presented to them--within and between disciplines. All of this requires continued maintenance of all technological tools that we have access to at this time, in addition to the use of new technological tools to further extend the 21st Century experiences we can offer our students.
--The technology package would allow students to prepare for a highly competitive global workforce by giving students the opportunity to work with technologies and collaboration methods that we currently can not. It will allow them to build the necessary and abstract thinking skills needed to succeed in a highly competitive technology driven economy. --Robi